Christian Schad
1894 - 1982
Jutta. 1969-1970.
Mixed media on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the lower left. Verso twice signed, as well as dated and titled. 35.4 x 33 cm (13.9 x 12.9 in). [KA].

• Playful, mysterious portrait in an unusual diagonal perspective.
• Christian Schad is considered one of the most important representatives of New Objectivity.
• Extensive exhibition history: including “Christian Schad. Retrospective, Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin” (1980).
• From an important private collection in Berlin.

We are grateful to the Christian Schad Museum for their kind assistance.

PROVENANCE: Keilberg studio (until 1984).
Kunstkabinett G. A. Richter (1994, label on the reverse).
Private collection, Germany.
Private collection, Berlin.

EXHIBITION: Christian Schad, Städtisches Museum Trier, March 20–May 2, 1971, cat. no. 35.
Christian Schad, Palazzo Reale, Madrid, October 26–December 5, 1972.
Drei Generationen. Menschenbilder ovn Christian Schad, Eberhard Schlotter, Peter Sorge, Kunsthalle Nuremberg am Marientor, August 15–October 12, 1975, cat. no. 28.
Christian Schad. Retrospective, Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, June 28–August 24, 1980, cat. no. 180, with color ill. (verso with a label).
Christian Schad. Die späten Jahre 1942-1982, Jesuitenkirche, Galerie der Stadt Aschaffenburg, September 18-November 13, 1994; Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, November 18, 1994-February 26, 1995; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, March 9–April 23, 1995.
Christian Schad 1894–1982. Von Expressionismus zum Magischen Realismus. Malerei, Zeichnung, Druckgraphik, Schadographien, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, December 18, 1999–February 6, 2000; Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, February 17–April 24, 2000.
Christian Schad, Die Magie des Realen, Kunsthalle Erfurt, December 17, 2000–January 28, 2001.

LITERATURE: Thomas Ratzka, Christian Schad 1894-1982, Werkverzeichnis volume I: Malerei, Cologne 2008, CR no. 232 (with color illustration).
Günter A. Richter, Christian Schad. Monographie, Rottach-Egern 2002, cat. no. 129 (with full-page color illustration, p. 271). color illustration, p. 271).
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Bettina Mirabile, Realismo e Visionarietà nell'Arte di Christian Schad 1894-1982, Tesi di Laurea, Rome 1996 (with a catalog of paintings from 1914 to 1981), no. 226, p. 390.

In good condition. Occasional tiny, expertly executed retouching, slightly more prominent in the edges of the image, which are slightly rubbed due to framing. The condition report was prepared in daylight and with the aid of a UV light source to the best of our knowledge and belief.
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